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Continue reading →: Villajoyoso to Altea
No two cycling days are the same. Luckily, this was a much easier day. Perhaps not as memorable however, more a relaxed micro-touring day. If you have ever wondered about Spanish Hostals, perhaps Hostal El Mercat would reassure you. Pedro, our host, sets high standards and runs a tight ship,…
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Continue reading →: Alicante to VilajoyosaYou know the old adage about repeating the same mistake and expecting a different outcome being a definition of insanity? I regret we two are living truth that it is entirely true. We finish every cycling trip saying we are going to train for the next one and in the…
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Continue reading →: Glasgow to Alicante 2023We have this flight with bikes thing pretty well nailed. The bikes go in Halfords-sourced cardboard boxes. This time we used the Holiday Inn Glasgow Airport rather than the HIE – even easier, except of course for the wretched, if necessary, multiple security bollards that mean the bikes have to…
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Continue reading →: Alicante Bound – for a third timeJacqui and I are off on our cycle tours again at the end of the month, outward bound by EasyJet to Alicante. We have then got a couple of weeks or so to explore the coast North of the city towards Valencia and perhaps beyond. We took some time to…
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Continue reading →: Top 12 Cycle Touring TipsIn late September 2022, Jacqui and I decided on the spur of the moment, to fly Ryanair to Bristol with our bikes and cycle home. A journey of around 1000 kilometres potentially, but from the start we said we might catch a train for some of it. I found a…
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Continue reading →: Our Thorn Bikes are 12 years oldOur Thorn Raven Sport Tours are now twelve years old. We love them as much today as we ever did. Better still, we look forward to riding them over the next ten years. Pictured here soon after we bought them in 2010.
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Continue reading →: Touring with KomootKomoot is an app that turns the iPhone into a Sat Nav for cyclists – with the addition of a few other bits and bobs. In late 2022, Jacqui and I flew Ryanair to Bristol with our bikes and set out to cycle home to Aberdeen. I found a set…
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Continue reading →: Back in the Saddle for 2021Well, it has been a while since I posted here, but Jacqui and I never stopped cycling, only posting and I have decided it’s time to start recording our cycle adventures again. Partly perhaps, because of the weather we are enduring this February in the Northeast of Scotland. September 2019…
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Continue reading →: Bye for now
Friends and followers, I have decided it’s time to let Pedalling on Regardless go and give this site a decent burial. I hope you have found some items of interest or use to you, but I feel I have run out of steam and can’t maintain a cycle-specific site anymore.…
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Continue reading →: Cycling – free under the airWhen Jacqui and I started cycling we were both in reasonably high pressure jobs. Cycling on day runs of short tours had to be fitted in as time and work allowed. However, we soon came to see cycling as a way of releasing us from the pressures of work. We…
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